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One who animates. De Quincey.

n ancient times of persecution, held before light in the morning. "Antelucan worship." De Quincey.

A balancing; equipoise. [R.] De Quincey.

it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful. De Quincey.

A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey.

unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.

the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world. De Quincey.

The quality of being apprehensible. [R.] De Quincey.

(in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.

arf the way to her assigned. Spenser. It is not easy to assign a period more eventful. De Quincey.

reat atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.

The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [R.] De Quincey.

Eradication. [R.] De Quincey.

ck by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. "A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question sh…

y-five years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknown to the English public. De Quincey.

Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. De Quincey.

To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.

-- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

he one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. De. Quincey.